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Arthur Gibson (cricketer, born 1889)

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Arthur Gibson
Personal information
Full name
Arthur Kenneth Gibson
Born(1889-05-19)19 May 1889
Kensington, London, England
Died28 January 1950(1950-01-28) (aged 60)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1919Somerset
First-class debut25 June 1914 Royal Navy v Army
Last First-class24 July 1924 Royal Navy v Army
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 5
Runs scored 139
Batting average 15.44
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 36
Balls bowled 18
Wickets 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 0/11
Catches/stumpings 0/–
Source: CricketArchive, 11 June 2011

Arthur Kenneth Gibson (19 May 1889 – 28 January 1950) was a Royal Navy officer who also played first-class cricket for Navy sides and in one match for Somerset.[1] He was born at Kensington, London, and died at Edinburgh, Scotland.

Cricket career

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Gibson was an opening or middle-order batsman and an occasional bowler in his first-class matches. He played Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire in 1911 and 1912 and made his first-class debut for a Royal Navy team against the Army team in an inter-services match, then considered first-class, in 1914.[2] His one game for Somerset, for whom his qualification is doubtful, was another services match against the strong Australian Imperial Forces side that played several first-class matches in the 1919 season; Gibson top-scored in a poor Somerset first innings with 22, and in the second innings was one of Herbie Collins' eight victims, the Australian batsman's best-ever return as a bowler.[3] He played further single games for the Royal Navy side against the Army in 1920 and 1924.

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Gibson was educated at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman on HMS Bulwark, became a sub-lieutenant in 1909 and was promoted to full lieutenant in 1911.[4][5] He served throughout the First World War on torpedo boats, and commanded torpedo operations on the destroyers HMS Crane, HMS Myrmidon, HMS Acheron and HMS Rattlesnake.[6] After the war, he trained as a physical education specialist and served at Naval training establishments across the 1920s and 1930s, with a stint as commander of HMS Heliotrope, an Azalea-class sloop, in the West Indies from 1928 to 1930.[6] He retired from the Navy with rank of commander in 1935.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Arthur Gibson". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Scorecard: Army v Royal Navy". www.cricketarchive.com. 25 June 1914. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Australian Imperial Forces XI". www.cricketarchive.com. 29 August 1919. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
  4. ^ "No. 28363". The London Gazette. 6 May 1910. p. 3164.
  5. ^ "No. 28538". The London Gazette. 3 October 1911. p. 7195.
  6. ^ a b "Royal Navy: Commander Gibson Retired", The Times, no. 47078, London, p. 4, 31 May 1935
  7. ^ "No. 34165". The London Gazette. 31 May 1935. p. 3518.